Women Leadership in IPPF!

Tazirwa Chipeta, Programs Director at the Family Planning Association of Malawi, is one of four women selected as a final candidate for the IPPF Women’s Leadership Initiative. The initiative is an International Masters in Practicing Programme (IMPM) which runs over one year. Monica Mwai, a communications intern at the ARO office – interviewed Tazirwa about […]

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Seeds of Growth

Seeds of Growth: Social Enterprise Hub Seed Grants 2021/2022 The SE Hub has disseminated almost 200-thousand US dollars for a variety of proposals through the Hub Seed Grants. This process was started this year when a call for proposals went out for the Seed Grants for start-up ventures or expansion of an existing businesses. 35 […]

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MA Tender

Deadline Extension The Secretariat has issued a new new tender in support of the IPPF Business Plan solutions 6. All MAs can apply for the tender. To do so, please download the document below. If you want to apply, please send an email to the MAForum@ippf.org. Please send your intention email before or on 28 […]

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Call for SE Proposals

The Social Enterprise Hub is providing seed grants for IPPF MAs. A new round of grants from IPPF’s Social Enterprise Hub is NOW OPEN to all MAs, for SRH or non SRH, start-up income-generating ventures (maximum of $20,000) or to grow an existing business model/social enterprise (maximum of $10,000). MAs who have previously received grants […]

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Social Enterprise Academy

IPPF’s Social Enterprise Hub launched the Social Enterprise Academy website last year. This website is a virtual knowledge repository and learning platform to support and empower Member Associations in their ongoing or future social enterprise and business planning process.  This custom-developed and free to use social enterprise platform can be accessed from this link, and the registration takes less than a minute. The below two links provide additional information and can be referred before […]

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YSVF Global Webinar

Youth, Technology and SRHR- Taking the Road Less traveled. FPA India hosted a first-ever global webinar on January 28, 2021, to showcase some of the tech-innovations in the youth SRH space presented by young entrepreneurs in the course of a 12-week long Innovation Challenge, organized in India in collaboration with Villgro Innovation Foundation. The webinar, […]

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The SE Chronicle

Published every January, the annual e-newsletter ‘The Social Enterprise Chronicle’ highlights the SE Hub’s global activities and impact, training programmes and events, new developments and showcases opportunities for engagement within the Federation. The first Social Enterprise Chronicle of 2021 is now available to download. We encourage you to read our past and most recent editions […]

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SEAP Learning Review

The Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka (FPASL) has been operating IPPF’s Social Enterprise Acceleration Programme (SEAP) since the end of 2017. Since this time, a dedicated Social Enterprise (SE) Hub based at FPASL has worked with other IPPF MAs and the Secretariat to strengthen the Federation’s capacity to develop and deliver social enterprise interventions. […]

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Stream 2 Update

During the 2019/20 reform consultations, the membership expressed a desire for a dynamic and strategic funding stream. The result was the Strategic Fund also known as Stream 2 of the IPPF Resource Allocation Model. The purpose of the Strategic Fund is to support MA initiatives in the areas of the Strategic Framework that require additional […]

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Youth Social Venture Fund

Fostering Youth-led Tech-innovations in the SRHR space: the Promise of IPPF’s Youth Social Venture Fund By FPA India Technology has immense potential in the health domain. Telemedicine, point of care technologies, non-invasive diagnostic aids have all shown an improvement in the overall access to healthcare among different population segments, including the marginalized. In 2019, FPA […]

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